JOHN DOE NO. 2 v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Docket No. 1-15-2406.

2016 IL App (1st) 152406

JOHN DOE NO. 2, JOHN DOE NO. 3, JOHN DOE NO. 4, JOHN DOE NO. 6, JOHN DOE NO. 7, JOHN DOE NO. 8, JOHN DOE NO. 9, JOHN DOE NO. 10, JOHN DOE NO. 11, JOHN DOE NO. 12, JOHN DOE NO. 13, JOHN DOE NO. 14, JOHN DOE NO. 15, JOHN DOE NO. 16, JOHN DOE NO. 17, and JOHN DOE NO. 18, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, a Congressionally Chartered Corporation, Authorized to Do Business in Illinois; and CHICAGO AREA COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Rehearing denied November 29, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Marc Chemers , Scott L. Howie , John J. Walsh III , and Edward J. Aucoin, Jr. , of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtrd., of Chicago, and Dana C. Crowley , of Dana Crowley & Associates, of Barrington, for appellants.

Christopher T. Hurley and Evan M. Smola , of Hurley McKenna & Mertz, of Chicago, for appellees.

Justice Lampkin dissented, with opinion.


OPINION

¶ 1 In 2013, plaintiff John Doe 2 joined an existing lawsuit against defendants Thomas Hacker, Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and the Chicago Area Council (CAC), as 1 of 18 plaintiffs alleging that they were sexually abused as children by Hacker, their...

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